


If there's one thing we've learned, it's that nothing dies on the web.except for careers. And that fail will never go away, cached somewhere in the annals of your favorite hip-hop blog. Today's poster child might wake up as tomorrow's Twitter hashtag, as long as there's the right Flipcam footage or screenshot. Everyone's suddenly got a voice, and anyone's volume can be turned up to 11. With the Internet in overdrive, every day is an obstacle course in new media: Regrettable interviews can happen at any time, and opinions are formed immediately. There's a thin line between champagne showers and golden showers.Īnd, these days, urban legends are no longer relegated to barber shops and tin-can alleys. That being said, when some of these rappers crash, it's a hard fall and piles of pennies don't act as a solid cushion.

In hip-hop-a culture that celebrates its ability to test the boundaries of exaggeration-the highs go unbelievably high: Bitches, riches, and speedboat motorcades are the norm. A refresher course in physics: Isaac Newton found that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
